The Fiat X1/9 was not the first mid-engined sports car sold to the masses with low power and good handling, but it combined sharp angular styling (by Bertone) with a sub 2000 lb curb weight that made Porsche 914 owners green with jealousy. The little X1/9 is a slow car that is fun to drive […]
The Fiat Dino Coupe is sometimes confused with Dino 206/246 as they both share a Ferrari engine and were produced at the Fiat factory when new. The Fiat Dino was created to homogolate the 2.0 liter Ferrari V6 for racing since the mid-engine Dino 206 was not produced in sufficient quantities. These are rare cars […]
The original Fiat 124 Spider was the product of some awesome Italian designer…oh no..that’s not correct. Oh yeah, it was designed by legendary Dutch designer Tom Tjaarda…who was not Dutch, but American. That’s right, while Tom Tjaarda was the son of Dutch immigrants, he was born in Detroit and was as American as Dutch apple […]
I generally don’t post many Lada or VAZ built cars, not because of the whole Ukraine-Russia war thing that’s going on right now, but because I personally haven’t had any experience with them and wouldn’t typically recommend a car designed by Fiat in the 60s and assembled behind the Iron Curtain in the 1980s. I’m […]
The Fiat X1/9 was not the first mid-engined sports car sold to the masses with low power and good handling, but it combined sharp angular styling (by Bertone) with a sub 2000 lb curb weight that made Porsche 914 owners green with jealousy. The little X1/9 is a slow car that is fun to drive […]
The Fiat Coupe (or Coupé, if you prefer) had styling that was a departure from the boxy Fiats (Lada square edges on them!) of the 1980s and it is quite striking in person or in print, particularly compared to some of the monstrosities that roam the streets today. The Coupe was never imported into the […]
In 2007 Fiat re-introduced a city car to their lineup using the 500 name and even imported it into the United States, at least until 2019 when Fiat-Chrysler-Stellantis-BorgCube canceled the little city car. But that’s okay, because it was made in Mexico, so if you want a REAL Fiat 500, you need to get something […]
I know that a Fiat X1/9 has something like 70 horsepower…but it is a mid-engine Italian car and today’s example has one of the sweetest sets of wheels I’ve ever had the opportunity to put my eyes on. So if your idea of a perfect Sunday drive involves driving like a Sunday driver…then this is […]
When I see the words Fiat 124 Sport I immediately think of the Pininfarina styled Sport Spider version, but built on the same platform was a sedan, wagon, and coupe. Today we’ve got an example from the third series (1972-1975) of the Fiat Sport Coupe that has been in storage since 1985, but the seller […]
I know it would be a bad idea to buy a Fiat 500 Abarth. There must be a reason these things are so cheap. Right? Even in the middle of the biggest stupid used car inflation period in the history of wheels, the Fiat 500 is still one of the cheapest cars you can get […]